shiny - Display Euro symbol in plots

Question

I have a developed a shiny app that displays Euro amounts on the y-axis label. It does not render in the plot output. How do I get around this issue?

The following is in the server.R:

plot(monthRange, euroPerMonth/1000, 
     type="l",
     main="Cost",
     xlab="Months",
     ylab="€ (000)")

The closest I have come across is this; but, I am not sure how to apply this in shiny.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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The following minimal example does plot the Euro sign correctly.

Place the code in a new R file and call it app.R

server <- function(input, output) {
output$cost <- renderPlot({
    plot(2, main="Cost", xlab="Months", ylab="€") 
  })
}

ui <- fluidPage(
    mainPanel(plotOutput("cost"))
)

shinyApp(ui = ui, server = server)

When running this I get the following GUI with the Euro sign plotted.

Hope this helps.

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Aug 26 '15 at 06:21

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That worked. But, when triggered via a click on the Run App button, it didn't work. Text encoding is set to UTF-8. – cogitoergosum Aug 26 '15 at 06:32
Running the code via `cmd enter` and hitting the Run App button does produce the exact same behavior in my environment. – symbolrush Aug 26 '15 at 06:34
I am going to have to explore some more; as it does not seem to work for me. Thanks Adrian, for your response. – cogitoergosum Aug 26 '15 at 06:39

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